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which tie in to how strongly I believe
in making our city government work
for everyone.”
Th ough outspoken to a Jewish source
about their Jewish backgrounds, these
candidates will be less likely to talk
about their ethnic and religious back-
grounds if they choose to join the cam-
paign trail, political analysts predict.

Th ough Jews have historically played
a signifi cant role in Philadelphia union
eff orts and are generally associated
with commitment to public service,
Jews don’t make up enough of the lib-
eral majority in the city for the Jewish
candidates to rely on their voting bloc,
said Bill Rosenberg, a professor of
political science at Drexel University.

“Who was a Jew?” Rosenberg said.

“You have seen over time, for diff er-
ent reasons, that there are diff erent
defi nitions of Jews, Jewish households,
people that are religiously connected
to Judaism and people that are more
culturally or socially connected to
Judaism.” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was
cautious in bringing up his Jewish
heritage in his presidential campaign,
Rosenberg explained. He only explic-
itly talked about being Jewish toward
the end, but his wife wasn’t Jewish, and
he wasn’t raising his children in a tra-
ditionally observant way.

“Some people may think that maybe he
wasn’t Jewish enough,” Rosenberg said.

But more generally, people are stra-
tegic in engaging with identity politics
on the campaign trail, said Richardson
Dilworth, a Drexel professor who heads
its Department of Politics.

“Th ey’re politicians,” Dilworth said.

“Th ey have to win a majority of the vote.”
To make themselves more appeal-
ing to more demographics, the mayoral
candidates will talk to various LGBTQ
groups, race-based groups and unions
to appeal for their vote. Th ough their
Jewish backgrounds and values may lay
the foundation of who they are and why
they are running, they don’t want to cre-
ate too specifi c a narrative that a diverse
group of voters can’t relate to them.

Conversely, rather than ignoring
their identity altogether, candidates
will likely adapt their story, while
remaining truthful, to connect with
other groups of people. Th is doesn’t
just apply to Jewish candidates.

“Any politician who reaches the level
of being a serious mayoral contender is
really using their identity simply as a
tool to reach out to their constituents,”
Dilworth said. JE
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